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Church History 3.1.3

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Paul preached from Jerusalem to Illyricum and was martyred in Rome under Nero, as Origen says.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:84

τί δεῖ περὶ Παύλου λέγειν, ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ μέχρι τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ πεπληρωκότος τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοὐ Χριστοῦ, καὶ ὕστερον ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἐπὶ Νέρωνος μεμαρτυρηκότος; ταῦτα Ὠριγένει κατὰ λέξιν ἐν τρίτῳ τόμῳ τῶν εἰς τὴν Γένεσιν ἐξηγητικῶν εἴρηται.

English · Claude translation

What need is there to speak of Paul, who fulfilled the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem as far as Illyricum, and afterwards was martyred in Rome under Nero? These things are said word for word by Origen in the third volume of his Commentaries on Genesis.

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Source
Dindorf 4:84 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to Rom 15:19. The source is Origen's Commentary on Genesis, book 3 (lost; not among this site's texts).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/1/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/1/3/).

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